This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"
I…
This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"
I…
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Walt Mossberg interviewed Rupert Murdoch at The Wall Street Journal's D6: All Things Digital conference today. Some very interesting quotes in there from Murdoch:
- he says newspapers around the world are down 10 - 30% in ad revenue, which eats…
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Wow, what a blast from the past. I used to read the news as a schoolkid on the wildly successful community radio station, 89.9 Hitz FM. I also did some graphic design (poster) work for them back then too. Them…
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Just days after his appearance on ABC Media Watch, David Richards has posted a story including inaccuracies that could have been avoided with the smallest amount of research.
One of the inaccuracies that caught my eye was about me. According to…
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Media Watch broadcast an illuminating segment last night on the publisher David Richards, who is alleged to have plagiarised numerous stories from other websites.
You can Digg the video here to help other people see it.
Richards has excused himself from the allegations…
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Why don't tech companies just say what they mean? As a journalist, I'm sick of receiving essentially dishonest announcements from big tech companies.
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I've been doing journalism long enough now to no longer feel like a new starter… professionally since 2003, and for Whirlpool.net.au from 1999.
Sometimes, though, I sit back and have a moment of stunning realisation what a bizarre world journalism is — not bizarre because of the journalism itself, but bizarre because of the intense fawning, cajoling flattery from the staggeringly vast army of PR professionals that spend their days sucking up as hard as they possibly can to journalists.
When I say a huge army, I mean a really massive number of them. It feels like there are at least 50 PRs to each journalist. Sometimes when I stand at the bus stop in Druitt St, Sydney, I look at the crowd of often very well dressed people around me and can't help wondering what proportion of them are PRs. Given the largest publishers and PR firms are all centred in the same area of the Sydney CBD, I wouldn't be surprised if quite a lot of the 7.00 PM crowd are PRs on their way home to Balmain.
These people, who, in some PR practices, charge as much per hour as lawyers, are usually absolutely stunningly good looking, charming, charismatic people. They're impeccably dressed, they know all about you even though you may not have a clue who they are (apart from a vague glimmer of a memory that you might have met them some time in the past), and they are deadset focused on making you feel fantastic about how good you are.
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To the many, many people from across the tech and media industry who have emailed letters of support to me about Telstra (thank you, I will get back to you all individually in the next few days :-), I was…
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… because A-list bloggers work harder than I do.
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Ah, you gotta love this guy. He's been trolling the tech community since tech journalism was invented, and people still fall hook, line and sinker for him every time.
Here's him explaining how he earns tidal-waves of page impressions every…
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Apologies for the lack of posts lately. It's been a crazy time for me in the last month or so: I had to move house due to our landlord selling our existing one (which had been dragged on since December…
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Mega telco Telstra revealed the following staggering news on its corporate blog today: Alcatel, the key supplier that stands to earn billions from building Telstra's Australian fibre-to-the-node network has come out in support of Telstra and against its competitors.
Where would…
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Thank god for the sanity of Judge Franklin Elia of the 6th District Court of Appeal, who said to Apple on Thursday:
"All you want here is the name of a snitch, so you're saying you have the right to…
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I got a new job at work last week: rebuilding the APC website.
I won't be physically doing the programming: that will be the job of our excellent new developer Declan "Standards Compliant" Kennedy.
However, much of my APC magazine workload…
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Hello from downtown San Francisco, where I am for the Intel Developer Forum which is starting on Monday (US time… Tuesday Australian time).
Intel flew journos business class (the first time I've ever flown it internationally) and it really was an amazing…
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